The Avengers 2 to shoot in UK, early 2014 start

The Avengers will assemble in the UK early next year, as Joss Whedon looks set to bring The Avengers 2 to Britain...

Marvel seems to like Britain. Not content with tending to open its films a week earlier over here, it's also shot the likes of Captain America and Thor: The Dark World over in the UK. And it's a trend that's set to continue, it seems, with Joss Whedon's upcoming The Avengers 2.

Screen Daily reports that pre-production work on The Avengers 2 is set to get underway later this year at Shepperton Studios, with the plan being to shoot early in 2014. It'll join the soon-to-shoot Guardians Of The Galaxy, on which work is set to begin later in the year.

There's no news yet, as you might expect, as regards casting or story details. But rest assured, we'll secrete ourselves in Hawkeye's nest in the corner of Shepperton, and pass on anything new we hear. That, or we'll just ring the PR people. One of those two approaches should work...